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In this session, how bitcoin got started in Korea would be main in talk. Also he will look for the first Korean bitcoin merchant and bitcoin’s introduction to the general public and even the Korean stock market’s hypersensitivity to Bitcoin related companies. Introduce and explain how Korbit is crafting Bitcoin’s image in Korea, also deeply look into Korea’s history in pioneering virtual currency culture. Furthermore, you can listen how Korea can set the standard as a Bitcoin economy in his session.

New to bitcoin? Have questions? Don’t miss this fundamentals session with Jonathan Mohan, Founder of Bitcoin NYC. Jonathan will bring you up to speed with how to use bitcoin in the real world. He’ll cover how to get bitcoin, how to send and receive it, how to spend it and how to store it securely. And of course, your questions! This is not just another lecture – he’ll run live demos and incorporate hands-on elements. Bring your smartphone, tablet, or laptop for help setting up your first bitcoin wallet.

This session will focus on exchanges and the things you need to be aware of to launch and operate an exchange effectively. We will explore the past, current, and future bitcoin and altcoin exchange landscape. Come learn about the opportunities and challenges in the exchange space and the keys to success.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the value-added information service by interconnecting uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices and exchanging information between them in the Internet infrastructure without human intervention. In IoT, a thing (service provider) collects useful data from its sensors and provide them to other things (service consumers), which analyze the sent data and create useful information and knowledge. In this case, it is needed for the service consumers to pay the value to the service provider without human intervention. This talk will discuss how to design the IoT payment system, especially using bitcoin, and what issues should be considered including security issues such as authorization, authorization, and encryption.

Bitcoin has long been explained as the tool of choice for all those who want to conceal their wealth and transfers, and yet at the same time sticks out as an open system with a transparent and public ledger of all transaction since its inception. This talk explains what financial privacy means inside the bitcoin protocol and how it can actually be achieved.

Cryptocurrency represents the cutting edge of financial tech, these industry influencers represent the cutting edge of Bitcoin. New business models, new use cases and lower fees than ever. This panel is made up of entrepreneurs and visionaries who are leading the charge into the future of money. They’ll share their successes, their failures and help spark new ideas along the way.

As hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested into the Bitcoin ecosystem and market liquidity begins to increase, institutional investors are also beginning to look at bitcoin as an investable asset. Price targets have been placed anywhere from $1,000 to over $100,000 and a vast majority of banks have put teams in place to study the emerging asset class. This session will explore the different variables and assumptions that investors and analysts examine when developing financial models and price projections for bitcoin.

This presentation will explore how traders can utilize Bitcoin derivatives in simple arbitrage strategies. The arbitrage strategies covered are spot exchange arbitrage and spot vs. future arbitrage. In addition, the presentation will provide some financial theory about how to correctly value Bitcoin futures contracts. The goal of the presentation is to equip attendees with the tools to use Bitcoin’s price volatility to enhance the return on their portfolios.

This session will provide a wide range of current status and characteristics of virtual currency regulations in major countries such as U.S., Canada, EU, U.K., China, and Japan comparing with Korean situation. He will also cover international AML(Anti Money Laundering) collaboration trends, legal issues newly raised by virtual currency and suggestions for preventing attempts to use bitcoin as international crime tools.

Asia represents 60% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s economy, yet Bitcoin adoption is still in a very early stage in Asia. In this talk, Zennon will walk us through the current situation of Bitcoin in Asia and what we can expect in the future. Covering mining, regulation, acceptance, and exchanges, this session will bring you up to date on the situation in Asia and China; will there be a future for Bitcoin in the world’s most populous nation?

Six years have now passed since Satoshi first released his whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, and the system has proven to have succeeded more wildly than almost everyone imagined. A simple experiment out of an obscure branch of computer science and cryptography-focused academic ended up growing to a $5 billion market cap, top-level meetings in major governments and regulatory institutions around the world, and the final coalescence of a dream of cryptography and decentralized trust that has been laying dormant for three decades. We’ve built the cryptoeconomy up to here. What now? What actual purposes can blockchains be used for? The way that the system is currently organized, with everything centralized into a single blockchain, is obviously not sustainable for very high levels of usage and hundreds of applications; what kind of a new system would replace it? Will we see one major cryptocurrency, five to fifteen major cryptocurrencies, or thousands of coins, one or more for each individual chain performing each individual task? And above all, what exactly is the ultimate goal?

The Bitcoin was created in 2009 and it has been evolved with many changes for last 5 years. We would like to review what kind of ideas have been made and what kind of new ideas would change the world with Bitcoin. Also we would like to analyze the Bitcoin related trends.

I’d like to talk about Bitcoin wallet services, every bitcoiner use it at least once. I’ll analyze types and structures of various Bitcoin wallets, and from it introduce some attractive services which can be integrated into bitcoin wallets.

The New Digital Economy: Can Bitcoin Disrupt and Innovate Everything on Money and Create a New Digital Economy?

Bitcoin has already changed the way we spend and receive money from the analog way (physical exchange) to a new digital way, changing the way mankind exchanges the money forever. Bitcoin will not only change the concept and the method of ‘the money’ itself, but will also change the finance, commerce, transactions, banking, technology, culture, entertainment and everything we do in our daily lives completely. Bitcoin will create a ‘New Digital Economy’. The economy as we know it will be divided into two: Before Bitcoin(‘BB’) and After Bitcoin(‘AB’). It will be an “Economic Infrastructure Revolution”. In this session, we will explore how the new Bitcoin Ecology is being created, will be developed and will reach a mature stage.

This panel session will deal with Korean bitcoin long-term measures and prospects with the largest bitcoin community in Korera, Seoul Bitcoin Meetup and other cryptocurrency experts. Bitcoin has kept its vitality due to its characteristics such as low transaction cost, tradable anywhere in the world, anonymity even though there were a number of ups and downs so far. What would be the best way to foster bitcoin ecosystem in Korea? What would bitcoin future be like?

Chanpeng Zhao will delve into the background of running an exchange and give users insight into the everyday happenings of a trading platform. He will also talk about where the future of exchanges is going and what traders can expect in the near and longterm future.

Bitcoin shows us that even though a complete elimination of risk is not realistic, a practical distribution of risk is nonetheless achievable–and the same is true for wallets and for server-based systems in the Bitcoin world. Chris Odom, the creator of the Open-Transactions project, explains how voting pools solve the “MtGox problem” on the server side, and also shows how the “smart wallet” of the future will be used to provide a practical distribution of risk so that users can obtain safety in an unsafe world.

The Bitcoin Exchange Security: Strategic Analysis on Bitcoin Security in the Perspective of a Hacker

As Bitcoin increasingly draws people’s attention worldwide, the number of Bitcoin exchange is also increasing. Since Bitcoin exchange is where customers’ deposit is kept, a high-level security is a must thing. In this session, the possible attack vectors to the exchange will be summarized first, and the case of Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin exchange platform that was hacked to go out of business, will be strategically analyzed.

Regulation is often seen as a threat by bitcoiners, yet it is the unique way to increase customer protection, gain credibility towards financial partners and overall a requirement for a larger acceptance of bitcoin.